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— The death of Mr. Frank Buckland, is announced in the
papers of Dec. 18th. Mr. Buckland was the son of Dean Buck-
land, the distinguished geologist. He was well known as a pleas-
ing writer on popular natural history, and as a fish culturist.

— A large and valuable collection of Rhode Island plants has
been presented by Mr. James L. Bennett, of Providence, to the
already increasing Herbarium of Brown University, of which Mr.
W. W. Bailey has recently been appointed the curator.

— Prof. Thomas Rymer Jones, F.R.S., died in December ; he
was born in 18 10; held the chair of comparative anatomy in
King's College, London, and was the author of "The General
Outline of the Animal Kingdom."

— Dr. E. Sequin, well-known as a leading American physician,
philanthropist and physiologist, died in New York in October.
He was born in France in 1812, and showed brilliant talents
while a student in Paris.

— It is stated in the daily papers that the late Prof. Watson, of
the University of Michigan left the sum of $50,000 to the National
Academy of Sciences for the promotion of original research
in astronomy.

— It is reported in the daily papers that a manuscript journal
of Gilbert White, of Selborne, has been discovered. It is said
to be of considerable length.

— Dr. Lauder Lindsay, who wrote on the subject of intelligence
in the lower animals, and who was an authority on British lichens,
died in December last.

— Prof. Ernst Hampe, a distinguished German bryologist, died
recently at Helmatedt, aged 85 years.

PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES.

New York Academy of Sciences, Dec. 20. — Professor C. H.
Hitchcock read a paper on the ancient volcanoes of New England,
and Dr. R. P. Stevens exhibited some rare silver ores and carbo-
niferous fossils from Arizona.

Boston Society of Natural History, Dec. 15. — Notes on the
geology of Mt. Desert were read by Mr. Wm. M. Davis, and that
of the adjoining Frenchmen's Bay was discussed by Mr. W. O.
Crosby. Mr. J. S. Kingsley spoke of some points in the anatomy
of Holothurians. Dr. Edward Palmer showed some objects of
ethnological interest from caves in Mexico.

176 Selected Articles in Scientific Serials. [Feb., 188 1.

Appalachian Mountain Club, Dec. 10. — Mr. H. Murdock read
a paper on Mt. Cardigan, including accounts of several ascents.

American Geographical Society, Dec. 23. — Mr. Thomas
Davidson read a paper on the recent excavations and discoveries
at Athens and Olympia.

Middlesex Institute. — At an adjourned meeting of the Mid-
dlesex Scientific Field Club, held on the 8th of December, 1880,
the name of the club was changed to that of Middlesex Institute,
by which name it will hereafter be known.

Boston Society of Natural History, Jan. 5, 1881. — Dr. M.
E. Wadsworth discussed the appropriation of the name " Lauren-
tian " by the Canadian Geological Survey. The President gave
further details of the structure of the carboniferous millipedes, to
show that they should be classed as a distinct suborder of Myria-
pods. Mr. F. W. Putnam exhibited some supposed Palaeolithic
implements from Massachusetts, and spoke of their discovery and
character. Mr. J. S. Kingsley presented a collection of Crustacea
and remarked on some of its rare or curious species.

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SELECTED ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC SERIALS.

Geological Magazine. — December. Notes on the occurrence
of Stone Implements in the coast latitude south of Madras, by R.
B. Foote. Analysis of Moa egg-shell, by A. Liversidge. Classi-
fication of the Pliocene and Pleistocene beds, by C. Reid. The
Mammoth in Siberia, by H. H. Howorth. (The writer maintains
that in former times when the mammoth abounded in Northern
Siberia, the climate of this region, extending from the Ural
mountains to Behring straits, Siberia, was much milder and like
that of Lithuania at present " where the bison still survives, and
where so many of the other contemporaries of the mammoth
still live.")

Annals and Magazine of Natural History, November. — On
the minute structure of the recent Heteropora neozelanica, and
on the relations of the genus Heteropora to Monticulipora, by
H. A. Nicholson. On Stromatopora dartingtoniensis , n. sp., with
tabulation in the larger branches of the Astrorhiza, by H. J.
Carter.

American Journal of Science, January, 1881. — The Albany
Granite, New Hampshire, and its contact phenomena, by G. W.
Hawes.